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Greg Chism

Computational and Data Science Educator (Ph.D.)

Education

Ph.D. Entomology and Insect Science (minor in EEB)

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2017

  • Advisor: Dr. Anna Dornhaus
  • Interdisciplinary research into how ant nest shapes affects how they behave
  • Considered the implications towards animal behavior and human architecture fields

B.S. Zoology

Santa Barbara, CA

University of California Santa Barbara

2016 - 2014

  • Advisors: Drs. Armand Kuris, Kevin Laugherty, Jonathan Pruitt
  • Investigation into the food web of sandy beach arthropods.
  • Probing animal personality of sandy beach jumping spiders and social spiders
  • Graduated distinction within major (EEMB)

A.A. Biology

Redding, CA

Shasta Community College

2014 - 2012

Certifications

Certified Data Carpentries Instructor

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Trained to provide high quality data science workshops that are inclusive and broad reaching

Teaching and Mentorship

Data Science Fellows

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Educated scientists at the Postdoctoral level in a dynamic environment that developed, exchanged, and created data science expertise towards solving cutting edge research problems in health and biomedical sciences.

Roots for Resilience (R4R)

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Educated senior grad students from a variety of academic domains to use data science techniques to encourage discoveries within their domains.

Research Compendium Using GitHub and RStudio

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Created and taught a workshop series on reproducuble research compendium using GitHub and RStudio
  • Created a companion Quarto book that served as workshop materials for asynchronous learners.

Exploratory Data Analysis in R Workshop Series

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Created and taught a workshop series on exploratory data analysis using the dlookr R package.
  • Created a companion Quarto book that served as workshop materials for asynchronous learners.

KEYS Program Educator

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Created and implemented an interactive Open Science and Machine Learning Curriculum for Title I high school seniors
  • Taught introduction to R/RStudio utilyzing RStudio Cloud

Undergraduate Research Mentor

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2020 - 2018

  • Dornhaus lab: nine students mentored in producing publication quality data
  • Two students are coauthors on publications

Insect Discovery Teaching Assistant

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2019 - 2018

  • Taught insect science K-8 title I students from the Southwest through four on-campus workshops
  • Gave on-site interactive demonstrations on insect science at the Flandrau Planetarium

KEYS High School Student Mentor

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2019 - 2019

  • Mentored an advanced high school student in data etiquette and hypothesis testing

SARSEF High School Student Mentor

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2018 - 2018

  • Mentored three high school students in data etiquette and hypothesis testing

Professional Development

Foundational Open Science Skills (FOSS)

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Participated. CyVerse’s 10 week virtual workshop that taught the principles, practices, and how-tos for doing collaborative open science using cutting-edge, open source cyberinfrastructure, in a collaborative, hands-on setting.

Developing the Data Science Classroom

Washington D.C.

RStudio::conf(conf)

2022 - 2022

  • Participated. Equip educators with concrete information on content, workflows, and infrastructure for painlessly introducing modern computation with R and RStudio within a data science curriculum.

Basic & Advanced Container Camp

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona

2022 - 2022

  • Participated. CyVerse’s Basics and Advanced workshops on container technologies are game-changers, enabling you to easily share, scale, and reuse tools and workflows for all types of computational analyses.

Data-driven Ecological Synthesis 2018

Montreal, Canada

Université de Montréal

2018 - 2018

  • Participated. Applying the R programming language to answer a diversity of biological questions

Published Teaching Curriculum

Data7 EDA in R Workshop Series

GitHub repository

N/A

2022 - 2022

Data7 KEYS Internship Open Science Materials

GitHub repository

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Compantion Quarto presentations and R Markdown for my KEYS internship open science curriculum

Published Research Compendium

AntColonyPerformance

GitHub repository

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Zenodo published pre-release for a research compendium to reproduce in preparation research

NestArchOrg

GitHub repository

N/A

2022 - 2022

HumidityProject

GitHub repository

N/A

2022 - 2022

Published Research

Temnothorax rugatulus ants do not change their nest walls in response to environmental humidity

bioRxiv Preprint

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Coauthored with Faron W., and Dornhaus A.

A hymenopteran odorant alerts flies to bury eggs

bioRxiv Preprint

N/A

2021 - 2021

  • Coauthored with Davis, S. M., Maurer, M. M., Trejo, J. E., Garcia, R. J., & Schlenke, T. A.

ABCTracker: an easy-to-use, cloud-based application for tracking multiple objects

arXiv Preprint

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Coauthored with Rice, L., Tate, S., Farynyk, D., Sun, J., Charbonneau, D., … & Shin, M. C.

Intraindividual behavioral variability predicts foraging outcome in a beach-dwelling jumping spider

Scientific reports

N/A

2017 - 2017

  • Coauthored with Lichenstein, J.L.L, Pruitt J.N.

Published Datasets

Data repository for DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.30.498314

Zenodo

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Nest shape influences colony organization in ants: spatial distribution and connectedness of colony members differs from that predicted by random movement and is affected by nest space (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6784395

Data repository for DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.30.498314

Zenodo

N/A

2022 - 2022

Outreach and Service

RStudio Connect Landing Page

Tucson, AZ

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Build an interactive dashboard displaying user metrics, facilitated monthly project highlights, and consulted on how to collaborate and best utilize the UArizona RStudio Connect platform.
  • Expected completion: October, 2022

ResBaz Arizona 2022

Tucson, AZ

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Co-chair of ResBaz AZ 2022 organizational committee.

Insect Discovery Website

Tucson, AZ

N/A

2022 - 2022

  • Designed content for the Insect Discovery website, hosted by the UArizona Extension Program

Invited Talks

How nest shapes can influence colony level organization

Small intercontinental lab meet-up on colony organization and nest architecture in social insects

N/A

2021 - 2021

  • Invited talk

Nest architecture may influence ants the same was buildings influence humans

Advances in Complex Systems: From Ecology to Economics - Lake Como School of Adv. Studies

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Invited talk

The influence of nest architecture on colony level organization in ants

UArizona SIAM Seminar series

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Invited talk

Selected Awards

Carruth Award for Graduate Student Excellence

$500

N/A

2021 - 2021

GIDP - EIS Program Education Award

$250

N/A

2020 - 2020

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Award Accepted

$300,000

N/A

2019 - 2019

References

Anna Dornhaus (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Professor
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • The University of Arizona

Jeffrey Oliver (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Data Science Specialist
  • University Libraries
  • The University of Arizona

Maliaca Oxnam (M.A.)

N/A

N/A

  • Deputy Director
  • Data Science Institute
  • The University of Arizona

Nirav Merchant (Ph.D.)

N/A

N/A

  • Director/Co-PI
  • Data Science Institute/CyVerse
  • The University of Arizona